Collapsible box.



PATENTED JULY 21, 1908.

W. G. POST.

GOLLAPSIBLB BOX.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.10,1906.

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GOLLAPSIBLE BOX.

APPLIUATION FILED AUG.10, 1906.

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' ATTORNEY WARREN GUY POST, OF MEDI A, NEW YORK.

COLLAPSIBLE BOX.

No. seasvo.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jul 21, 1908.

Application filed. August 10, 1906. Serial No. 330,002.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WARREN GUY Posr, citizen of United States, residing at Medina, in the county of Orleans and State of New York, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Collapsible Boxes,"of which thefollowing is a s eclficationi This invention re ates to collapsible boxes, for eggs and thelik'aeach provided with a cell structure inse arable from the box and adapted to be co lapsed when outside the box and to rest in open condition in the noncollapsed box.

The principal'objects of the invention are to prevent the cell'structure from becoming separated from the box and lost, and to reduce the usual cost of devices of this general class.

In the accompanyin drawings, Figure 1 shows the box and col -structure blanks in V the relative positions which they occu y line a of the cover.

when out from a stri or sheet of stock, t e dotted lines being ines along Which the blanks are scored. a Fig. 2 shows an open box with a part of the cover broken away and with the swinging cell structure opened but not fully 'Within the box. slightly modified complete apparatus the box being open. Fig. 4 is a vertical section through the fastening devices, the box being closed.

As clearly appears in Fig. 1, the box A and its cover B are inte rally formed and to the former are. 'integra lyconnected alon the scored line wy, the cell-structure str1ps w which are, in use, to be parallel to the hinge These strips w are folded 1 at right angles along scored lines xc, 'ym,

' and with them the independently formed cross strips f, w are interlocked in the usual way to form a complete cell-structure. The body blank is bent at ri ht angles along the scored lines o,- and its on s are mterlocked as usual. The cell-structure being swung, on the axis .'r{z out 'of the box is readily collapsed to flat form, f and the bod .of the box is also made flat by bending its ateral walls inwardly on the scored lines z thereby folding down the four sides, by bending along the Fig. 3 shows a lines '0, 4/,0; and this operation also brings the folded cell-structure into position to lie flat upon the folded box and its cover.

When the box is in use the cover is held closed by a locking tongue r, of the cover flag, engaging in a suitable slot 8" in the box en In Fig. 3 the cover is shown as provided with hinged side-walls n which fold inward by bending along scored lines 71, .a constructionwhich does not change the folding before described. This figure also shows a simple tongue 1* for engaging in a slot 8 and holding the-cover closed. Usually all the parts for a complete box and cell structure are cut from the stock and scored by one stroke of a die.

What I claim is:

1. The combination with a box adapted to assume plane form by folding, of a collapsible cell structure, made up of interlocked strips, hinged at one side, and approximately in the plane of one of its broader faces, to the margin of one wall of the box to swing into the uncollapsed box and when itself uncollapsed fit within the same.

2. The combination with a box having a hinged cover and adapted to be collapsed'to fiat form as a whole by simple folding, of a cell structure, consisting of interlocked cell strips, hinged to one edge of the box wall at a oint not covered by the folding parts of the box and arranged to swing into and fit the interior of the box'when both box and cell structure are uncollapsed.

3. The combination with a box ada ted to be collapsed to fiat form by foldlng, o a cell structure made up of interlocked stripsarranged to be collapsed to flat form, bv movement in the plane. of the structure, to he upon the collapsed box; said structure belng hinged at one side to the edge of one wall of the box,- to swing into and out of the box when the latter is uncollapsed.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

, WARREN GUY POST.

Witnesses:

B. E. HARCOURT, ELIZABETH B. ALLEN. 

